Waldo Vieira () (April 12, 1932 – July 2, 2015) was a Brazilian spiritual author,

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, physician and dentist who founded the spiritual movements of Conscientiology and Projectiology.Rocha, Cristina; Vásquez, Manuel A. (Eds). ''The Diaspora Of Brazilian Religions'', pp. 339-362 (Chapter "The Niche Globalization of Projectiology: Cosmology and Internationalization of a Brazilian Parascience", by Anthony D’Andrea). Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013.

Biography

He became a Spiritist when young and graduated in medicine and

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.Bueno, Wilson De Araújo
''VOZES DO PARANÁ, retratos de paranaenses, Vol. 2''
Editora Esplendor: 2009. In 1955, he met the famous Brazilian medium

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and the two co-authored several books on Spiritism, founded their

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, practiced

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Programa "Globo Repórter" (Rede Globo) em Maio de 1995, dedicado a Chico Xavier.Souto Maior, Marcel. ''As Vidas de Chico Xavier''. 2ª ed. São Paulo: Editora Planeta do Brasil, 2003; pgs. 166, 154, 169 e 174 and did voluntary medium work, including psychographies. Around 1966, he became a

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Spiritist, developing his own views on the subject and stopping to work with Xavier. He then began studying themes related to

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, like

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s and

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. He became a member of the

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and the

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, founding two fields of study he termed ''Conscienciologia'' ("Conscientiology") and ''Projeciologia'' ("Projectiology"). He published his first book on the subject in 1979, with several other publications until his death in 2015. His books were translated into English, Spanish, Italian, German and Chinese.Simone de La Tour e Kevin de La Tour
Paradiplomacia com Características Chinesas
''(...) edição especial do tratado Projeciologia, de Waldo Vieira, com tradução parcial para o chinês...''. Revista Conscientia, 2006, 10(4), p. 361-370.

References

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